Who Was Pete Seeger - Who Was...? Author:Noel MacCarry, Stephen Marchesi (Illustrator) Pete Seeger was still singing and playing the banjo for tens of thousands of fans even when he was at the age of ninety-four. Born in New York City on May 3, 1919, Pete came from a family of musicians. — Despite writing and singing folk songs that all of America knows, not many kids know his name. Why? Because his ties to the Communist Party... more » got him banned from radio and television for many years! Well-known for his civil rights activism with Martin Luther King Jr., Seeger also spearheaded efforts that cleaned up the Hudson River and made it beautiful again. His best-known songs include "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", "If I Had a Hammer" and "Turn, Turn, Turn."« less